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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 1:47 pm |
65Pard
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Posts: 59
Location: Central FL or in Motorhome
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[quote="LC Fan"]Lafalum makes my point. He points out that Lafayette offers the opportunity for "leadership experiences" that are unavailable at other schools. Mentoring by committed faculty, 23 varsity sports, 150+ clubs, lectures and performances nightly, etc.
Fraternities offer life experiences that clubs and lectures cannot provide....Interaction on a daily basis with diverse individuals....learning to fraternize, cope and grow in a social sense...developing character from frustrations and triumphs of leadership positions......Lifelong friendships that often offer later benefits in a business and professional sense.
For every couch potato in a fraternity you can find a few in dorm recreation rooms....Undesirable behavior is not fostered by fraternities any more than in dorms.....its roots predate college acceptance.
The comments I have heard over the years about LC grads alway tend to point out how well rounded they are.....and the professional success of our grads is a testament to that.......Sad to see that this could change.... |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 6:10 pm |
Lafalum
Joined: 06 Mar 2007
Posts: 843
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| TheTruth wrote: |
Lafayette, like Colgate, BU, HC, Lehigh, are unique schools. Fraternities and interconllegiate atheltcs are a big part of it. If Lafayette were being founded today, it would probably be about 2500-3000 students, would not have engineering, play Div. 3 and would not have fraternities. Instead you have a school with 2200 students, a top 10 engineering program, Div. 1 sports and fraternities and sororities. It works because we have immensely loyal alumni who continue to donate large sums of money because the College means so much. The greek system and athletics play a large part of this.
Weiss came in with a lot of promise but the one decision he made that hurt the school more than anything was reducing the size of the incoming class. The BOT back in 2002 (help me out wtih the date lafalum) decided to increase the size of the school to help deal with the costs of a Div. 1 athletic program and expanding the arts and sciences. Plans were being developed to add residence hall space and expand the faculty. Weiss decides to reduce the incoming class to improve our academic standing since faculty to student ratio is the leading indicator (never understood this but I'm not an egghead). Of course, he doesn't agree with US News and World report but this decision is in direct response to this survey. Now we become even more dependent on our endowment and alumni donations to run day to day operations. God forbid we have an economic downturn and our endowment is reduced by 30%. Oh wait, that is happening now. |
Rothkopf slowly increased the size but never made a public declaration to the faculty. In fact the faculty to this day resists raising the size of the school. Most thinking BOT member know this. Weis' plan does not work without an endowmet of 1.2 -1.5 billion dollars. We can't raise the money and the market will not help. His plan is dead in the water and he should realize that. |
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